Okay guys sorry it took me forever to get a chapter up, but here it is! Sorry it takes me so long. :( I'm always so busy! Well anyways, here you go!
~THG~
We shuffle in after him and he leads us to the living room. I notice there's a lady with long dark brown hair, green eyes, and a purple dress sitting in the living room. She's probably his wife. There's a little girl, probably Macy's age, sitting in her lap. What? Roy never mentioned he had a sister.
Gale tells us to sit on the love seat so we do. I sit right in the middle of mom and Dad, Right across from Roy. Where's Caleb? There's a long silence as we just sit there staring at each other.
"So what brings you here?" Gale asks. I find it rude that the lady hasn't introduced herself, but then again we haven't either. But in all honesty, do we have to? She knows who we are.
"Roy didn't tell you what happened?" I blurt out. Gale looks at Roy and he sinks down in his seat. Oops. I guess he wasn't going to tell his dad in the first place.
"What happened?" Gale asks and looks at us. I hold my breath and lean over to dad and clutch his arm. We all look at each other, waiting for someone to talk. "Well?" Gale asks sounding angry.
"Should I tell him?" I whisper very lowly in dad's ear. He shakes his head and sighs.
"You remember what the Capitol did to me right? The hijacking?"
"Yes..." Gale starts. "Oh god Peeta did you hurt someone? I swear-"
"NO." my mom says, angry. I don't think this is gonna end well.
"Well then what the crap happened?" he screams. The lady puts a hand on his leg and he crosses his arms.
I look at Roy and he just looks confused. He doesn't know what hijacking is. And by looking at his dad he probably won't learn.
"Dad you tell him I'll tell Roy." I say standing up. He tries to stop me but I keep walking. I pull Roy's arm and lead him into the kitchen. "Do you have any idea what hijacking is?" I ask getting straight to the point.
"No. What's going on?" he asks confused. I run my fingers through my hair and pace back and forth.
"Well when the rebellion happened with our parents and stuff-you know about that right?" he nods his head and I continue. "Well they took my dad and they hijacked him. What they did is put tracker Jacker venom into his body and it changed his memories. They made it all distorted and unreal." Roy nods and I stop pacing and stand in front of him.
"Well the night you moved in, I got this weird dream, and they found out that...that...I had tracker jacker venom in me." he nods again and I put my hand on his shoulder. "Roy, I don't think you understand. I don't have any memories of my mom and dad from when they were my age. So my mind kind of makes them up for me."
"Wait..." he seems to be figuring it out. His eyes widen. "So you have these nightmares...but they happen during the day, out of nowhere." I nod. His eyes widen. He gets the idea. I think back to what happened earlier and I get tears in my eyes. What if one day it's permanently changed and I don't know Roy anymore. I blink and the tear falls.
"Hey, come on." Roy whispers and pulls me into his arms. "Everything's gonna be okay."
"How do you know? What if...What if one day I get stuck in it and can't get out. What if I don't remember who you are? What if-"
"Hey. Stop with all the ifs." he says. He lifts my chin up so I can look at his face. "Focus on now." He leans in and I don't stop him. I kiss him back. "Promise me." he whispers.
"I promise." I say hugging him again. Suddenly I hear screaming from the living room and look at Roy. His eyebrows are raised and we both rush out.
"How could you be so clueless Mellark!" I hear as I make it to the door. I'm about to step in but I stop myself. I hold my arm out to stop Roy too. I put a finger to my lips and listen.
"Stop it Gale." my mom says forcefully.
"Don't talk to him like that." the woman says.
"Oh so it's fine for him to talk to my husband like that but when I do it's suddenly wrong?" my mom screams.
"Everyone stop this is ridiculous!" my dad yells.
"Shut it Mellark!" Gale screams.
"HEY! He's not the only Mellark in this house. So I suggest YOU shut it before I shut it for you." Everyone looks at me in shock, even Roy. "I don't know what you guys problem is but right now you're all acting like jerks."
"Rose!" dad says in shock.
"Hey, we don't know. Maybe she's in one of her little tracker jacker tantrums." Gale says. I can feel anger bubbling up inside of me and I shoot him a look. I step towards him. "You wish. Because if I was I probably wouldn't punch you in the face right now." I raise my fist but I just stare him in his eyes and drop my hand. I shake my head and run out of there as fast as I can.
~THG~
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